30 October 2009
Refurbishment, regeneration and waste featured prominently among the winners of the 2009 Sustainable Housing Awards
30 October 2009
Property development on the first of The World islands, a collection of manmade islands off the coast of Dubai, may start as soon as next month
29 October 2009
The Homes and Communities Agency has approved funding for 91 new housing schemes that were previously stalled, pledging millions of pounds from the first round of the Kickstart Programme.
29 October 2009
Two out of the three winning products in the Interbuild ‘Best at Show’ Product Awards this year had sustainability at the heart of their designs.
29 October 2009
Quakers retrofitting their meeting house with energy saving measures will get £15,000 to help realise their zero carbon ambitions.
28 October 2009
A coalition organised by Friends of the Earth and the Town and Country Planning Association has launched a parliamentary campaign to make climate change more central to the planning system.
28 October 2009
DECC has made £6m available for research and exploration into possible sites to harness deep geothermal energy
27 October 2009
Engineers who used a 600-year-old technique to design a building with 90% lower embodied energy than typical have won the 2009 Institution of Structural Engineers David Alsop Sustainability Award
23 October 2009
It is ironic that the recent announcement from the FSA heralding much tighter checks on the ‘disposable income’ of those seeking a mortgage, coincided with some relatively good news from the Bank of England’s Trends in Lending report
23 October 2009
By 2016 all new build homes must be zero carbon, and already several standards promote airtight homes
21 October 2009
BRE Scotland and Ravenscraig have announced that four consortiums will build demonstrator homes on the new BRE Scotland Innovation Park which is being developed.
19 October 2009
Alex Neal of Colliers CRE explains why the Government has decided to allow the time limits for planning permission to be extended
19 October 2009
The launch of a new international standard on energy management aims to provide a means of establishing best practice in a key area for creating sustainable buildings
19 October 2009
Energy Expo, in its various guises since the 1990s, has moved on as it approaches a new decade, as Ian Grant reports.
18 October 2009
On 7 October, the Government released its amended proposals for the Carbon Reduction Commitment. Simon Napper looks at the final shape of the scheme